In my previous blog I mentioned that not everyone is planning to load up the family to go over the river and through the woods to grandma’s house for a lavish turkey spread this Thanksgiving. In fact, some families forgo the entire conversation-over-cranberry sauce tradition all together and opt for an extended holiday weekend shushing down the slopes in Colorado or feasting on pheasant in Hawaii.
If you are looking for alternative locales to spend your Thanksgiving holiday consider some of these options:
LAS VEGAS
The glitz and glam of Sin City may be the antithesis of grandma’s chatskie-filled dining room, but at least you’ll be surrounded by plenty of restaurants that offer as-good-as-mom’s apple pie. This year Thanksgiving meals are being offered at the Top of the World Restaurant at the Stratosphere; Spago at Caesars Palace; David Burke at the Venetian; the Eiffel Tower Restaurant at the Paris; and MIX at THEhotel at Mandalay Bay. And as a special holiday bonus, Tony Bennett and Wayne Newton are both in town for shows. Also, the Bellagio Conservatory has a spectacular autumn-themed scene on display through November 24th, complete with a 35-foot-tall cider mill, babbling brook, a bed of pumpkins and 1,000 red and green apples.
NORTH CAROLINA
The resort will be decorated for Christmas by the time Thanksgiving rolls around, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to feast on a traditional turkey meal at the landmark Biltmore estate in Asheville, North Carolina. The popular vacation spot, which allows guests to travel by horse and carriage to Thanksgiving dinner, is offering a number of holiday deals this year. Three-night packages at the Inn on Biltmore start at $1,760 for two, which includes hotel accommodations and Thanksgiving dinner in the resort’s legendary Dining Room.
WISCONSIN
If you are visiting the Dairy State for the holiday weekend you might want to walk off some of that pumpkin pie just south of Milwaukee. That’s where you’ll find the newly restored Wind Point Lighthouse. A celebration to mark the end of the site’s restoration takes place this month—-just in time for Thanksgiving. The historic lighthouse’s windows have been replaced, painting has been done, masonry has been repaired, and now it’s time to show it off. The restoration project forced the 108-foot beacon to shut down for the past three months so crews could work on the $150,000 facelift. The 127-year-old structure had its exterior stripped of old paint and received a fresh coat of special white paint that withstands the elements. What’s more, during the interior sandblasting process workers were able to expose detailed brickwork that dates back more than a century.
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